Global Supply Chain Crisis 2021: Megathread - A cozy thread for watching the supply chain fall apart just in time for the holidays

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  • The US Trucking Crisis of 2021 works fine

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  • The US Logistics Crisis of 2021

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  • The US Transportation Crisis of 2021

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  • The US Supply Chain Crisis of 2021

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  • Global Supply Chain Crisis 2021

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Good News! The American government is stockpiling baby formula!


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Kuritan Deplorable said:
This move won't just ensure an energy crisis, it will ensure it is sustained until they stop trying to use socialist economic controls on it.
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Imagine escaping a communist country into this shit. haha out of the frying pan and into the fire.
AbendCode12 said:
Because this is all a money laundering operation by the American government. See Hunter Biden.
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You will sacrifice for Hunter Biden and his dad and be happy.
 
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I look forward to the laptop class smugly reading news about the petrolchuds not being able to afford gas, before opening uber eats for lunch and never having a driver actually accept their delivery because of bonkers fuel prices. In a panic, they order rush grocery delivery instead, to the same outcome. they try to drive their tesla to the suburban hybrid superstore/gas station lot, only to be blocked by stalled traffic in the gas lines.

They really think they can just smug their way past this, and I will relish them being mistaken.
 
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So why is there a baby food shortage exactly? Is it the regular case where the entire production hinges on a single massive plant rather than have multiple locales?
 
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wtfNeedSignUp said:
So why is there a baby food shortage exactly? Is it the regular class where the entire production hinges on a single massive plant rather than have multiple locales?
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My understanding is China killed a good number of American babies and the powers that be went into pants shitting panic mode, since dead babies is one of the few things that will get us upset at China enough to do something. So they immediately started claiming there was a problem with American formula factories too, or somesuch, when in reality the problem is Amerifats no longer keep shit clean and the formula is shipping sterile, but once it reaches Amerifat houses, the idea of sterilizing bottles and nipples is completely alien to them, so it gets cross contaminated and the plant gets shut down?

Feline Supremacist said:
Something is weird about the shutdown of the Abbott facility https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/new...rmula-at-sturgis-michigan-plant-after-recall/

People have really bad hygiene practices these days; they don't wash hands and clean surfaces. Baby bottle and nipples were made from glass and rubber and sterilized by boiling in ye olden days (up until the very early 80s). If the bacteria was on the canisters and they weren't wiped down by parents the contamination is possible but you know they don't guarantee a sterile canister, just formula.
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@Feline Supremacist had a post in the Biden thread about it.
 
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Hippopatumus said:
I can't wait to buy heating oil on the black market so my family doesn't freeze to death in the winter.
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Get a woodstove and a ductless mini split heat pump. It's around $1,700 with taxes to fill my oil tank now and I haven't had to fill it since February. Mini split uses barely any power, but doesn't work well when it gets below freezing, so that's when you fire up the woodstove. I'm betting energy inflation is going to continue to rise rapidly, so I put money into alternative forms of heating. Costs me $100 a month for precut seasoned stuff if I want to heat the house solely with wood, and if I wanted to cut it myself I could get a permit for $25 a year. Spent around $12,000 combined for both, but in three months I've already saved over $3,000 on oil, so at this rate they will pay for themselves in like two years.

I'm telling you man, best money I ever spent. The woodstove especially. We have this massive government hydro project that came in over 200% overbudget to the point where it has literally almost bankrupted the government. Power was supposed to come online in 2017, and it still hasn't so we're relying on a 60 year old thermal generating station that burns oil lol. I'm bracing myself for not having reliable electricity in the future.
 
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I actually have a woodstove installer scheduled out this month. I'm on pins and needles about getting it in with the supply chain chaos happening.

I had to burn wood last winter when my heat pump aux heat went out. I went through half a face cord in two days just to keep the house at 60F.
 
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Hippopatumus said:
I actually have a woodstove installer scheduled out this month. I'm on pins and needles about getting it in with the supply chain chaos happening.

I had to burn wood last winter when my heat pump aux heat went out. I went through half a face cord in two days just to keep the house at 60F.
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That's a lot of wood. Was this in just an open fireplace? You're in for a treat if you're getting an insert. They're much more efficient and have baffles at the top so you get a double burn going. I can heat my place up to around 22C(71.5F) with maybe 10 decent sized junks a day.
 
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That's a lot of wood. Was this in just an open fireplace? You're in for a treat if you're getting an insert. They're much more efficient and have baffles at the top so you get a double burn going. I can heat my place up to around 22C(71.5F) with maybe 10 decent sized junks a day.
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Have you ever looked into mounting a stirling generator on the flue, to generate a little electricity from the waste heat? I've always wondered how effective that might be.
 
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teriyakiburns said:
Have you ever looked into mounting a stirling generator on the flue, to generate a little electricity from the waste heat? I've always wondered how effective that might be.
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Interesting, I had never heard of a stirling generator. I have a 4000W Hyundai gas generator, but of course it would cost and arm and a leg to run it with gas prices.
 
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teriyakiburns said:
Have you ever looked into mounting a stirling generator on the flue, to generate a little electricity from the waste heat? I've always wondered how effective that might be.
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Once you've payed for the equipment to actually generate electric current (most small sterling engines are just novelties for models or mechanical curiosity) and capture and convert it into a useful form (5v DC for USB devices probably) you might as well just buy a camping solar kit and a battery bank for it. The price would be about the same and you'd get more power out of the solar set. If you wanted to be serious about sterlings, using a thermal solar setup focused on a medium sized sterling engine could be viable, a giant mirrored dish like an antenna to focus light on the hot side.
 
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wtfNeedSignUp said:
Is there a reason why we don't have shortages in medicine for fatties and pozzed? It's suspicious the shortages are mainly things to fuck over middle and lower class, while medicine should be just as prone to problems with factory closing and supply chain.
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Big Pharma probably. They stand to make a buck or two off of people. Raise prices saying there's a shortage even though there isn't.
 
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